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Posted inDrinking Water

EPA proposes adding microplastics, pharmaceuticals to drinking water watch list

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ALI SWENSON Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Thursday to include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list of contaminants in drinking water for the first time, a step that could lead to new limits on those substances for water utilities. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said they are responding to Americans who have […]